IMHO VF's suggestion is probably somewhat useful. I'm still not sure how to avoid that commands that might not be installed are mentioned on man pages -- maybe it cannot be avoided, or maybe it would require fairly involved changes to the entire man system, so that only those "see also" entries are displayed that belong to programs that are installed. Maybe it's not even good to avoid this perceived inconsistency. With Vf's suggestion, the user is not lost when such non-installed commands are encountered, and given this extra feature, it might even be possible to be more liberal in referencing more (exotic) commands under "see also", seeing that the user can learn how to find them. Another option that comes to mind would be to make the man system show "see also"-references to all relevant programs, installed or not installed, but make it mark or annotate the ones that are not yet available on the system.
In any case, with the new feature, the urgency for further improvement in this area is much lessened -- if anything, this bug could probably be consigned to the back of the wishlist queue. Do others have any thoughts on this, and/or agree/disagree? Feel free to trash my comment if it helps the system. ;-) -- 'man wall' contains reference to talk(1), but talk is absent in Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105216 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
